Female Celebrities who left their male partners to be with their girlfriends

Updated on August 16, 2022 23:27 PM by Ava Sara

Love comes with a fluidity which many people have started embracing. Though, slowly but eventually people are becoming honest about whom they love without explaining why they fell in love with the person or the gender. While majority of us can do these things in the privacy of their homes, celebrities don’t enjoy any rights like this. They have to do everything in the public eye. That’s the unwanted perks of being a public figure. After every few years, we come across a female celebrity who leaves her situation-ship, boyfriend or husband to be with a woman they love. Being with a same gender partner is as difficult as being with the opposite gender partner, if not more! Apart from the pressures of maintaining a relationship, there are comments, stares and a lot of negativity. However, the relationship of these female celebrities gave a plenty of fuel to the gossip columns of the newspapers and magazines. So, let us begin our list of such female celebrities.

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Sarah Paulson

Sarah Paulson saw an unexpected growth in her career when she was cast in basically all the Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy movie production. During the early 2000s, Sarah Paulson was in a real serious relationship with another actress Cherry Jones. However, when their relationship started to fall apart, she started dating playwriter Tracy Letts that lasted for several years but Sarah was not satisfied at all. The couple parted their ways a few years later. Right now, Sarah is dating Holland Taylor. It shocked people for two reasons – first, she is dating a woman in the public eye and second, Taylor is 74 years old and Sarah is just 42. No matter, Sarah gets attracted to the new female in her life and is least interested who knows it. She confesses that her life is unconventional but regardless she wouldn’t have her life any other way. It looks like this cute couple is in it for the long heave.

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Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan was in Dubai few years back and only God and she knew what she was doing there because it was quite surprising as she was always the L.A. party girl. At the time she was called a party girl, she was dating so many people in the Hollywood. The list includes Heath Ledger, Colin Ferrell, James Franco, Wilmer Valdarrama so on and so forth. Though, we are not sure whom she was really dating and not just hooking up when she started her (now an infamous) relationship with Samantha Ronson which lasted for years. When the two ladies ender their relationship, Lohan called it toxic. Maybe that was sufficient to scare her back to males her last relationship was with Egor Tarabasov which was as toxic if not more. So, we have not even the slightest clue which way Men or Women will now choose.

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Kristen Stewart

Kristen Stewart has been into a number of high profile relationships. The list can be started with Robert Pattinson who was her co-actor in Twilight series. They dated each other for the entire length of franchise and for some time after that as well. However, a scandal was out where she was making out with a married director. This not only broke her relationship with Pattinson but also director’s marriage. Fast forward, she came into relationship with someone whom looked to be deeply involved with, Stella Maxwell. Maxwell is a model who worked with Victoria Secret and also Max Factor. The couple is very vocal about their relationship and was seen together on different red carpets all over the world. The two girls actually seemed adorable together and not to mention, this was the first time Stewart looked comfortable.

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Cara Delevingne

Not even a single person was surprised when model and actress Cara Delevingne revealed her identity. Her name was once linked to Dane DeHaan but then there came a time when Cara was seen more with the women than the men. Cara always knew who she was. During an interview she said that when she opened about her sexual fluidity, everybody started asking her if she was gay. No, she is in no way gay. Cara is simply open about who she prefers. She calls herself fluid. Do you blame her? The world is so full of love and who doesn’t wants to be loved? She admits she still feels confused about what she wants and likes. But, one thing is for sure she loves being a fluid human being.

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Demi Lovato

A few years ago in 2017, single Demi Lovato was seen cuddling a stunning woman. So, may remember when she and Wilmer Valderrama, her longtime boyfriend broke up and didn’t reunite. Demi released a song called ‘Cool For The Summer’ in 2015 that indicated that she may be interested into women and in 2017, she proved it right. The singer’s name was linked to DJ Lauren Abedini as well who is out now. The two made a trip to Disney World and they held hands and didn’t miss a chance to cuddle. You can call girls day out where the two held hands in a friendly manner but then an image from the same day was out where Demi was given Lauren a butt rub. They weren’t seen together after that for some time which meant either they were too private or Demi might have found someone new.

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Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore was linked to Jane Pratt, a journalist and also an editor for Jane magazine. Drew had a fresh breakup and during an interview, she admitted hooking up with women bbut didn’t take any names. After few years, Pratt revealed hooking up with Drew once and tell the truth on Howard Stern’s show about their time together. The fans speculated it happened in the year 1997 when Drew had been shooting for the cover of Jane magazine. The speculations make perfect sense considering the timings. However, the actress left all this behind, got married and had kids and grew in her career.

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Madonna

We don’t think anybody shows surprise on the fact that Madonna has hooked up with men as well as women. When it comes to experiencing new things and reinventing herself – Madonna is the queen. Madonna herself and the people she hooked up with have several times talked about their time together. She uusually swung like a pendulum in her relationships. Her and Rosie Perez involvement is a much talked about thing. Perez revealed that in 1993 when Madonna and Vanilla Ice had a break up, Perez then had hook up with Madonna and Tupac. The list of ladies Madonna was involved is long including Jenny Shimizu, Sandra Bernhard and Ingrid Casares.

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Lauren Morelli

Lauren Morelli is an author best known for Orange is the New Black. She and her husband Steve Basilone were in a relationship for more than two years. That was only till she met Samira Wiley who played the character of Poussey in a Netflix show. Morelli filed for a divorce from Steve and after few months wrote a letter with a title, ‘While Writing for Orange is the New Black, I Realized I Am Gay’. She didn’t reveal who she was dating for two years straight. Morelli married Wiley and had a happily ever after.

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Wanda Sykes

Wanda Sykes and her husband were married for a couple of years before she came out to be a lesbian. Sykes took a long time to open up and be honest with her family and friends. In fact, she couldn’t even confess the truth even to her mother until she was 40. In 2013, during an interview with Oprah Sykes became very candid about how it is to be a gay in Hollywood. She shared how it was like married to a man before she realized what her actual desires were and how life has changed once she knew her real identity. Sykes got married to Alex in 2009 after they secretly dated each other for two years. The duo has twins- a boy and a girl. Since the time she came out, she advocates equal rights for both gays and lesbians.

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie was a rising actress, a dead eyed when she acted in the movie Hackers with Johnny Lee Miller who was her fiance that time. later, the couple got married in 1996 but then the actress went on to shoot the film Foxfire. There, Jolie met Jenny Shimizu and it was nothing but love at first sight. Jolie fell in love with Shimizu the second she saw her. Actually, Jolie saw Shimizu when she was being cast for Foxfire. Jolie thought it was for her role and she will lose the movie. The actress admits she would have married Shimizu if she wasn’t married to her first husband at that time. while married to Miller for 3 years, Jolie was constantly seeing Shimuzu. Their marriage ended in 1999 and Shimuzu was one of the causes.

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Amber Heard

Amber Heard got out of an abusive relationship with Johnny Depp. The actress hooked up with Elon Musk for a brief period of time before she went back to her ex-girlfriend Taysa Van Ree. The two girls were a thing back in the year 2009. But, this was revealed only after she filed case against Depp of abuse, this brought Heard’s own past criminal records to the light. The couple has always been an on and off. Heard has swayed between Musk and Ree. The actress has always been fluid with her desires and she always goes with what she likes at that particular moment.

Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Nixon was married for fifteen years from 1988 to 2003 to a school teacher. However, everything changed when in 2002 Nixon met Christine Marinoni. They officialy started dating in the year 2004. When Nixon was questioned about the change in her identity, she replied that considering the orientation she doesn’t feel she has changed at all. She has been in love with men her entire life and she never fell in love with a woman. But, when she did, it didn’t feel strange. She is just a woman who is in love with another woman. Nixon says she might just be lucky and everything fell in place for her. Her kids also loved Marinoni and even called her Mommy. The two got married and even have their own child. Basically, Nixon lived a life she was completely satisfied with.

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Portia De Rossi

Portia De Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres is regarded as an iconic couple. So many couples out there look up to them and realize how amazing their relationship is. Before they became a couple, Rossi was married to Melvin Metcalfe. He had a brilliant idea where he left her and took wife of her brother with him. After coming over this brutual betrayal, in 2005 Rossi came out to be a lesbian. She and Ellen came together in 2008. They were so much into each other in spite of the rumors about their chaotic relationship. They are basically #couple goals for everyone. For Rossie’s ex, he remained single for years may be he is cursed for what he did to Rosie.

Anne Heche

Anne Heche’s story is among the most popular stories in Hollywood. She always dated men and didn’t even think of dating women. However, this lasted only till the time she hadn’t met Ellen DeGeneres. She defined their relationship as genuine. Heche admitted to Barbara Walters she felt cared for, loved on physical level which she never felt with a man. She felt sensuous in a way she has never felt earlier. She left Steve Martin to continue her relationship witth Ellen. When their relationship ended, Heche has only been with men and she doesn’t label herself anything but someone who is in love with love.

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Billie Jean King

Billie Jean King isn’t only known because she was associated with a Michael Jackson’s song. She was a tennis pro as well. King was unfairly thrown out of the game early in her career. A movie named Battle in the Sexes released in 2018 was partly based on her life. She admitted she wasn’t comfortable with herself till she was 51. King was married to Larry King who was lawyer by profession but she secretly continued her relationship with other women as well. During her divorce from Larry, she fell in love with Hana Kloss, her doubles partner. King has great relationship with Larry and one of his children even calls her a godmother.